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HEAVYMETALNUT said:pretty nice shape for being in the salt water! he got lucky on that one!
i've dug a few copper coins that were just pitted discs and thin from all the wave and tumbling action. if just sitting in dry sand and not getting tumbled then yes i would have to agree with you.still a beautiful coin!Neil in West Jersey said:HEAVYMETALNUT said:pretty nice shape for being in the salt water! he got lucky on that one!
Dave, the irony is that copper coins look better when in the salt sand for 200 years than they do from woods and fields. Silver, on the other hand, comes off the beach usually looking black as coal. So we have the opposite affect on both.
HEAVYMETALNUT said:i've dug a few copper coins that were just pitted discs and thin from all the wave and tumbling action. if just sitting in dry sand and not getting tumbled then yes i would have to agree with you.still a beautiful coin!Neil in West Jersey said:HEAVYMETALNUT said:pretty nice shape for being in the salt water! he got lucky on that one!
Dave, the irony is that copper coins look better when in the salt sand for 200 years than they do from woods and fields. Silver, on the other hand, comes off the beach usually looking black as coal. So we have the opposite affect on both.
steelheadwill said:Nice Old Coin !!
So many variables, you can dig a 200 year old beauty 3 feet from a scabby 20th Century. you never know,
I have a 1776 in my collection.
I've read they were widely used, wonder why we don't see more of them